UK: more restrictions on single-use plastics

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) announced that the list of single use plastic (SUP) products banned in England is to be expanded later this year. When the changes are implemented, the items subject to sales restrictions will be the same as those banned in the EU under the Single-use...

The mood in the market for rigid plastic packaging dampened in mid-October. Order books for containers and tubes remained well filled on the whole, according to EUWID respondents. However, in view of the poor economic outlook and the declining purchasing power of end consumers, producers of plastic tubes in particular...

In most areas of application, plastics apparently release fewer greenhouse gases than alternatives. This is the result of a study by the consulting firm McKinsey, New York. The study comprised 14 plastic products from various application areas, including six types of packaging, and compared them with common,...